Vegan sopes
Sopes are made with flat corn-based shells that you can pile high with all of your favorite Mexican-inspired toppings. These tasty vegan sopes are topped with refried black beans, fajita style vegetables, green onions, and avocado. These homemade sopes are gluten free, dairy free, and vegan friendly!
Servings: 6 sopes
Ingredients
- 3 stalks green onion
- 1 large avocado
Vegan refried black beans
- 15 oz black beans (standard 15 oz can)
- 1/2 white onion
- 1 large tomato
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp lime juice
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tbsp coconut milk (optional)
Sope shells
- 1 heaping cup masa harina
- 1 cup warm water
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil (for frying)
Fajita style vegetables
- 1/2 white onion
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
Vegan refried black beans
- Dice the onions, tomatoes, and garlic for the refried beans.
- Heat a medium sized pot over medium heat then add 1 tsp vegetable oil. Add the onions to the pot and saute them for 10 minutes. Add the tomatoes and garlic to the pot and cook for 5 more minutes.
- Add all of the other black bean ingredients to the pot then reduce the heat to low or medium low. Simmer the beans for 20 minutes until most of the water boils off. While the beans are cooking you can move on to make the sope shells. Many of the beans should burst open as they cook but you can blend them with an immersion blender if you want a nice, smooth consistency.
Sope shells
- Combine the ingredients for the masa dough and mix them well. Separate the dough into 6 equally sized balls.
- Shape the sopes. Grab a ball of masa dough and flatten it between your palms until it is 1 cm - 2 cm thick. Pinch the dough around the edges to form a rim all the way around the edge of the sope. Press down on the floor of the sope to flatten out the bottom of the sope and fill in areas dough was taken from to build up the rim.
- Heat a large flat bottomed pan over medium heat then add 1/4 cup vegetable oil. Fry the sopes for 3 minutes per side until they become golden brown. You should cook the flat side of the sope first then cook the side with the rim second.
Fajita style vegetables
- Thinly slice the onion and bell peppers for the sope toppings.
- Top the onion and bell pepper with salt and pepper then saute them in vegetable oil over medium high heat for 10 minutes until they start to blacken. You may need to use high heat at the end to get a nice char on the vegetables. You can also just throw the veggies on a grill.
Assemble the sopes
- Slice the green onions and mash the avocados.
- Top the sopes with refried black beans, fajita style vegetables, and mashed avocado, and green vegetables.